Cornell University and University of Michigan libraries’ Making of America projects are collections of journals and newspapers from the antebellum, wartime and reconstruction periods.
HarpWeek examines presidential elections, the Civil War, Reconstruction and other events of 19th century America through the articles and cartoons of Harper’s Weekly.
The National Security Archive is an independent institute located at The George Washington University that presents documents to the public after they have been declassified by the government.
History Animated provides easy-to-follow animations of key battles in the Revolutionary War, Civil War and Pacific theatre of World War II, with a short description of each battle.
HistoryNet is home to more than 5,000 articles published in Weider History Group magazines, which include American History, Military History, Wild West and World War II.
American Heritage makes many of its articles written since its 1954 debut available online.
BBC History Magazine offers interviews with the authors featured in its monthly issues, many of whom have recently released books. The Web site also includes blogs and short features.
History Now is a quarterly journal put out by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History that is designed for history students and teachers. The journal includes lessons plans and its articles include lists of books and online resources on the topic at hand. History Today is a weekly British magazine published since 1951; its Web site offers virtually all of its articles written since 1980.
The History of Our World in 18 Minutes
Black History Month
The New York Times and The Learning Networkhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/everyday-voices-finding-black-history-in-unexpected-places/
School Library Journal
Resources for Black History Month
http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2013/02/04/resources-for-black-history-month/
Mission U.S.: Flight to Freedom
for Middle School
Slave Life and Resistance
http://www.mission-us.org/pages/landing-mission-2
U.S. History
Thinking Critically About History
Using Alternative Narratives
http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/02/04/does-the-smartphone-have-a-place-in-the-classroom.aspx?admgarea=Features1
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
PBS Frontline
A Class Divided
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/
American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/
American Masters
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
The Knotted Line
Interactive Timeline of the struggle for freedom in the United States over the years
http://knottedline.com/tkl.html
National Geographic
Killing Lincoln - explores the Lincoln assassination
http://killinglincolnconspiracy.com/
American Political Cartoons
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/app/about.html
Lessons for Using Cartoons in the Classroom
The Association of American Editorial Carto
onists
http://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm#
The Smithsonian Institute
http://www.si.edu/
General
Primary and Secondary Sources
http://learni.st/users/60/boards/2139-relationship-between-primary-and-secondary-sources-common-core-standard-6-8-rh-9
Standford History Education Group
Reading Like a
Historian
http://sheg.stanford.edu/home_page
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/
Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
BBC History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hist
ory/0/
Lots of History Resources compiled by a History Teacher
http://www.historyteacher.net/
The History Channel
http://www.history.com/
Smithsonian
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/
Awesome Stories
Primary Source Resource
http://www.awesomestories.com/
History News Network
http://www.hnn.us/
This Day in History
http://www.on-this-day.com/
This Day in Alternate History
http://www.othertimelines.com/quick.htm
Alternate History
http://www.upworthy.com/i-never-thought-a-1-minute-video-could-punch-me-in-the-heart-yet-here-we-are-3?g=2&c=ufb1
Life Magazine
http://life.time.com/
Spartacus Educational
Encyclopedia entries with links to primary sources
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/index.html
Fordham University
Full Text Sources
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbookfull.asp
Washington Post
The State of U.S. Immigration
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/the-state-of-immigration/
Newspaper Archives
The Google News Archive searches historical newspapers, most of which cannot be found elsewhere in Google.
Time magazine provides users with access to its impressive article archive dating back to 1923
The Times of London org
anizes its archives through topics such as War & Revolution, Politics & Civil Rights, and Exploration.
The New York Times offers free articles dating from 1851-1922 and 1987-present.
The Sports Illustrated Vault offers all the magazine’s articles since its 1954 debut.
The Library of Congress’ Chronicling America displays images of late 19th and early 20th century American newspaper pages.
Cornell University and University of Michigan libraries’ Making of America projects are collections of journals and newspapers from the antebellum, wartime and reconstruction periods.
Letters, Diaries and Biographies
Find more great sites for primary sources in the findingDulcinea Web Guide to U.S. History and its numerous sub-guides.
Letters of Note offers a digital copy of an historic handwritten note each day, along with a transcript. It includes this ingenious method of communication during the Revolutionary War.
The University of Virginia’s “The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War” chronicles two counties, Augusta County, Va., and Franklin County, Penn., contrasting their experiences from John Brown’s Raid to the end of Reconstruction.
The University of Michigan’s “Spy Letters of the American Revolution” featutres spy letters written by both American and British forces. It includes stories about the letters, maps of the routes they traveled, and biographies of those who sent and received the letters.
Archiving Early America presents a wide array of primary source material on 18th century America, such as newspapers, maps, writings and portraits. It
also includes Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography and an 1807 biography of George Washington.
The University of North Carolina’s “North American Slave Narratives” is a collection of slave biographies and autobiographies published as books or pamphlets.
Political Cartoons
HarpWeek examines presidential elections, the Civil War, Reconstruction and other events of 19th century America through the articles and cartoons of Harper’s Weekly.The U.K. National Archives examines the use of political cartoons throughout world history.
Daryl Cagle’s Teachers’ Guide for the Professional Cartoonists Index offers lesson plans for using modern editorial cartoons in the classroom.
War and Conflict
The U.S. Army Center of Military History provides in-depth accounts of U.S. military operations from a variety of military sources, including “American Military History, Volume 1” and “Volume II.”The National Security Archive is an independent institute located at The George Washington University that presents documents to the public after they have been declassified by the government.
History Animated provides easy-to-follow animations of key battles in the Revolutionary War, Civil War and Pacific theatre of World War II, with a short description of each battle.
The National Parks Service’s Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a database that makes it easy to find personal records Civil War soldiers, sailors, prisoners and regiments.
History Journals
HistoryNet is home to more than 5,000 articles published in Weider History Group magazines, which include American History, Military History, Wild West and World War II.American Heritage makes many of its articles written since its 1954 debut available online.
BBC History Magazine offers interviews with the authors featured in its monthly issues, many of whom have recently released books. The Web site also includes blogs and short features.
History Now is a quarterly journal put out by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History that is designed for history students and teachers. The journal includes lessons plans and its articles include lists of books and online resources on the topic at hand.
History Today is a weekly British magazine published since 1951; its Web site offers virtually all of its articles written since 1980.
What Happened to History's Refugees?
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jul/25/what-happened-history-refugees#Israelites